China is very important. The future growth of China, China's influence is bound to rise.
Some of my earliest political feelings were based on the anti-Japanese bubblegum cards I got. There were also Spanish Civil War bubblegum cards. Awful.
A lot of people don't want to feel anti-black by being opposed to Obama.
Raising kids is part joy and part guerrilla warfare.
There are genuinely sufficient resources in the world to ensure that no one, nowhere, at no time, should go hungry.
We all moan and groan about the loss of the quality of life through the destruction of our ecology, and yet every one of us, in our own little comfortable ways, contributes daily to that destruction. It's time now to awaken in each one of us the respect and attention our beloved Mother deserves.
All capitalists should be like Warren Buffett, and he says he should be taxed more.
The hunter for aphorisms on human nature has to fish in muddy water, and he is even condemned to find much of his own mind.
Most frequently we make confidants from vanity, a love of talking, a wish to win the confidence of others, and to make an exchange of secrets.
To think bad thoughts is really the easiest thing in the world. If you leave your mind to itself it will spiral down into ever increasing unhappiness. To think good thoughts, however, requires effort. This is one of the things that discipline and training is all about.
I think in any movie really the two most interesting parts are the protagonist and the antagonist.